High Pressure

High Pressure

1932 · 73 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · Written by Joseph Jackson

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